Charles Giuliano
Bio:
Publisher & Editor. Charles was the director of exhibitions for the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University where he taught art history and the humanities. He taugh tModern Art and the Avant-garde for Metropolitan College of Boston University. After many years as a contributor, columnist and editor for a range of print publications from Art New England, Art News, the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Herald Traveler and Patriot Ledger, to mention a few, he went on line with Maverick Arts which evolved into a website.
Recent Articles:
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Lewis Black on Caris’s Peace People
Documentary Featured in Williamstown Film Festival
By: - Oct 20th, 2011Surgery for a brain tumor left the actress Caris Corfman with long term memory but no short term memory. In a struggle to overcome a cornucopia of health and memory issues she developed a one woman play. It is the culmination of a documentary film by Gaylen Ross which will be screened as a part of the Williamstown Film Festival. Her friend and one of the producers, the comedian Lewis Black, discussed Caris, his approach to comedy, and the play One Slight Hitch which was produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival this past summer.
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Frank Langella Roars in Man and Boy Theatre
Revival of Terence Rattigan's 1960s Drama
By: - Oct 18th, 2011In the centennial of his birth there is a revival of interest in the plays of the formerly celebrated Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (1911-1977). Because of an uncanny resemblance to the downfall of Bernard Madoff an unsuccessful play from 1963 Man and Boy is being restaged as a vehicle for another rip roaring, scorching performance by a larger than life Frank Langella.
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Grace Kelly and Phil Woods at the Colonial Music
7th Annual Pittsfield City Jazz Festival
By: - Oct 16th, 2011It was five years ago to the day when the prodigy alto player Grace Kelly first performed with alto master Phil Woods on stage at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. As a part of the 7th Annual Pittsfield City Jazz Festival the performance was recorded for future release on CD. The evening just blew our socks off.
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Venus in Fur Finally Reaches Broadway Theatre
Nina Ariadna's Rocket Ascent to Marquee Star
By: - Oct 15th, 2011It took some time but a sure hit has finally may its way from rave reviews off Broadway to the Great White Way. Nina Arianda was a graduate student when she first appeared in Venus in Fur. What came between was a Tony nominated role in Born Yesterday. Now her name is in lights.
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The Mountaintop Topples Martin Luther King Theatre
Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett Flirt on Broadway
By: - Oct 15th, 2011Veteran screen actor Samuel J. Jackson is making his Broadway debut as Dr. Martin Luther King in Katori Hall's play The Mountaintop. Jackson has been paired with Hollywood star Angela Bassett. The much anticipated show is well received and appreciated by audiences but has received mixed to negative reviews. Jackson is pitch perfect as Dr. King but Bassett as the maid/ mystery woman is all over the map.
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Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage Company Opinion
Producing Plays That Matter
By: - Oct 10th, 2011Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield is winding down its most successful season. It started with the riveting one man play Zero in May. Surged through Guys and Dolls to launch high season and is currently bringing back the riveting drama The Best of Enemies which was a hit during the summer. This is part one of an extended dialogue with artistic director Julianne Boyd.
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Best of Enemies Returns Through October 16 Theatre
Riveting Drama at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Oct 09th, 2011By the end of this second run the riveting new drama The Best of Enemies by Mark St. Germain will have sold some 10,000 tickets which is an all time high for a drama presented by Barrington Stage Company. Critics are unanimous that this was the best new play of the Berkshire season. Don't miss out on this too brief second chance.
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War of the Worlds Theatre
Shakespeare & Company to Nov. 6
By: - Oct 08th, 2011The bad boy genius Orson Welles scared the crap out of Americans who tuned in late to his Mercury Theatre radio broadcast based on War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. In a play within a play, or broadcast within a broadcast, Shakespeare & Comnpany is re staging that legendary hoax as a spoofy comedic romp.
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Mary Zimmerman Doesn't Read Her Reviews Opinion
So What Else Is New
By: - Oct 06th, 2011In the third and final segment of a dialogue with adapter and director Mary Zimmerman she articulates why she doesn't read reviews of her work. She compares it to passengers telling the pilot how to fly the airplane. Where have we heard this before? It also focuses on the function of criticism. Does a well written review provide useful information to the potential audience? Or is the critic, as Zimmerman implies, simply a sadist intent on amusing the reader by attacking the best efforts of creators. Can there be a productive dialogue between a critic and a creator? Here we give it an honest try.
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Mary Zimmerman on Opera Opinion
Has Directed Three Productions for the Met
By: - Oct 06th, 2011Mary Zimmerman has adapted and directed the production of Candide which is enjoying a successful run at Boston's Huntington Theatre. During an extensive dialogue she discussed the controversy of her three Met productions which were harshly reviewed by critics and opera traditionalists. She is negotiating with the Met for a new production as well as revivals. She also spoke about working with and creating an opera with Philip Glass.
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Elayne Polly Bernstein Schwartz, on October 4 People
Remembering a Patron of the Arts
By: - Oct 06th, 2011Elayne Polly Bernstein Schwartz, was known to the arts community as Elayne P. Bernstein. Her name is attached to the theatre at Shakespeare & Company, in Lenoz, which she generously helped to create. She was involved with many Berkshire cultural organizations including Jacob’s Pillow, Barrington Stage, Berkshire Theatre Group, Tanglewood, and Norman Rockwell Museum among others. Her overriding passion revolved around Shakespeare & Company.
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Ellsworth Kelly at the MFA Fine Arts
Museum School Alumnus Shows Wood Sculptures
By: - Sep 30th, 2011The first special exhibition in the newly renovated Linde Family Wing of Contempoary Art is a survey of wood sculptures by Ellsworth Kelly. With this project the MFA honors one of the most distinguished among the alumni of its Museum School. During the opening Kelly spoke with the media about studying with Boston Expressionist Karl Zerbe.
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Bounti Fare BBQ Food
All You Can Eat in Adams
By: - Sep 30th, 2011Pancho took a pass on the BBQ buffet at Bounti Fare in Adams. He didn't miss much. If you are looking for a bargain and tons of food then check it out. But if you really deeply care about BBQ, well, that's another matter.
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Boston Red Flops Opinion
Curse of the Bambino Strikes Out Again and Again
By: - Sep 29th, 2011Hey Terry Francona thanks for the memories. You're toast man. Nobody believed me when I called this flopperooo dead on back on April 18. In the spirit of accuracy and a bit of "I told You So" we have reposted that dire prediction now, sadly, all too true.
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99 in Pittsfield Food
Not Exactly a Rib Joint
By: - Sep 28th, 2011For a chain the barbecue at 99 was surprisingly good. The full rack of St. Louis style rubs was cooked perfectly. But finished with a generic barbecue sauce. No matter how they are done the steak tips at 99 are always terrific.
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Contemporary Art in Boston Fine Arts
Smoke and Mirrors at the MFA
By: - Sep 23rd, 2011On the occasion of the opening of the Linde Family Wing of Contemporary Art we reflect on a troubling history. There has been a struggle going back to the 1930s and the founding of the Institute of Contemporary Art. There has been an awkward relationship between the ICA, MFA and other museums in the area. It is now time for art workers to unite and throw off their chains.
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Malcolm Rogers on Contemporary Art Opinion
No Longer an Oxymoron for the MFA
By: - Sep 21st, 2011For most of its more than hundred year history Boston's Museum of Fine Arts had relatively little interest in the work of living artists European or American. That proved to be a costly error when it bought its first Picasso. It missed the boat on Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Minmal Art. With the opening of the Lind Wing for Contemporary Art Malcolm Rogers, the director of the MFA, assured us that the museum will be a player in contemporary art.
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Elizabeth Hess in Dust to Dust Theatre
Stage Left Studio New York
By: - Sep 21st, 2011Elizabeth Hess first came to the attention of the New York theatre world in the mid-eighties for her portrayal of actress Frances Farmer, in Sebastian Stuart’s incendiary play, The Frances Farmer Story. While the critics panned the play, and the fire department mysteriously closed it – at the time it was rumored to politically be too hot to handle – Hess’s “brave and powerful performance†was singled out by critic Clive Barnes as the evening’s saving grace.
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Williamstown Film Festival's Lucky 13 Film
Returns October 21-23 and 17-29
By: - Sep 20th, 2011Over two weekends (October 21-23 and 27-29), the Williamstown Film Festival's "Lucky 13th" season will include two East Coast and four New England premieres, family and late-night slots, titles from Sundance, Tribeca, and Toronto, and films featuring Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Carol Channing, Ezra Miller, Lewis Black, Kate Burton, Tony Shalhoub, Campbell Scott, and Christo. WFF will conclude with a salute to legendary director Sidney Lumet at the Clark Art Institute.
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Mary Zimmerman Directs Candide Opinion
Bernstein Musical at Boston's Huntington Theatre
By: - Sep 19th, 2011Tony Award winner and MacArthur Fellow Mary Zimmerman is directing and adapting Leonard Bernstein's Candide which opens this week at the Huntington TYheatre in Boston. It is her third production of the musical. She has also directed controversial new productions for the Metropolitan Opera which have been broadcast Live in HD. She is soon to announce more work with the Met. We discussed the production of Candide. There will be another interview that focuses on her feisty responses to criticism of her operas and views on the role of critics.
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Netflix Mea Culpa Opinion
Response to Subscriber Outrage
By: - Sep 19th, 2011Netflix screwed up big time. Jacking up prices and turning off long time customers. The stock took a dive and the company is in big doodooo with consumers. Now CEA Reed Hastings comes clean and wants us back big time. Read this and weep.
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Big River Runs Through Boston’s Lyric Stage Theatre
Going with the Flow of an American Odyssey
By: - Sep 17th, 2011The Lyric Stage Company of Boston opens its season, September 2 through October 8, with a lively and ambitious production of the musical Big River; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, based on the novel by Mark Twain with music and lyrics by Roger Miller and book by William Hauptman. On Broadway the musical won seven Tony Awards and ran for 1,005 performances.
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Barrington Stage Company Reports Record Season Opinion
$ 1 Million Plus in Ticket Sales
By: - Sep 13th, 2011Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, announces that its 2011 season was the most successful season since its founding in 1995.
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Joe Manning on The Lewis Hine Project Opinion
The Mill Children at the Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Sep 12th, 2011Lewis Hine used his camera to expose the issue of child labor in America. In 1911 he created nine images of children about to start their 12 hour shift at the Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Mass. Through October 8 the Eclipse Mill Gallery is showing the special exhibition The Mill Children. The project was organized by gallerist Ralph Brill with Realist Painter William Oberst, Abstract Painter Dawn Nelson, Historian Joe Manning, Composer/Musician Matt Hopkins, Filmmaker Steven Borns and Educator Anne French. Wespoke with Joe Manning about his ongoing Lewis Hine Project.
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Willard V. Jenkins on NEA Jazz Masters Opinion
Grammy and NEA Cutbacks Evoke Protests
By: - Sep 10th, 2011Recognition and support for the diversity of American music is under attack. For the 2012 Grammy Awards the number of categories has been reduced from 109 to 78 with a particular elimination of ethnic performers. There are similar consolidations for the NEA. We discussed this with Willard V. Jenkins who helped to bring the NEA Jazz Masters Jimmy Cobb and Gunther Schuller to the 2011 Tanglewood Jazz Festival.
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